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Maximilien Danton

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Everything doesn't have to be awful. I really believe that. 🇿🇦🇺🇦🐧 All my writing is my own. I don't use AI to write, not even for grammar checking. I write […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.social/@infidel, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 37m

Are we just going to let this happen?

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🧵 when Zelensky talked about Trump's betrayal, he said "probably it will be gas. No definitely it will be gas". #ukraine knows more than they are letting on, and now is the best timing to scratch this whole thing open. The world needs to hear it. It's the avoidance of truth that makes fertile […]

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Paywalled, but heres my position. #Ukraine has known since at least 2016 that #Trump was a #russian ally. They tried to convince Trump to change sides, but they were fully aware that they failed, despite analysts saying that they didn't expect this. Of course they did. It's western Europe that […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2h

Back to #thiel. He has merged this butthurt incel theology with libertarianism, techno fascism and the anti Christ, which according to him is a one world government. In order to prevent this one world government, he funds #palantir , aptly named after the tool fantasy villains use to spy on the […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2h

🧵without skipping a beat, Girard describes the object of desire in one sentence and literally says "her" in the next. Women are called dramatic, but this fuckin dude seems like he spent his whole philosophy career to explain a fight he got into because of a women who rejected him. Perhaps there […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2h

#pieterthiel 's apocalyptic "Philosophy" is based on the work of the philosophical hack Rene Girard. Girard's "mimetic theory" is the idea that 1. All human desire comes from mimicking the desires of others. 2. This causes violence. 3. To prevent violence therefore we need a scapegoat that is […]

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 11h

This is America's oligarchy (The Deep State) spending billions on the midterms to make sure Republicans maintain control of Congress so that Congress continues to do nothing to stop them or the Trump crime family.

Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Last night we watched videos about Alex Carp and Pieter Thiels philosophy. What struck me once again is this nebulous concept of western civilisation and how it's supposedly superior In addition to this imperial assumption, the #USA is the protector and saviour of western civilisation! Western […]

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Eric Maugendre on adapting @eric.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

#solutions #rootCause #AI #futurism

4 picture meme:
1. "My genius machine will find solutions to all the world problems".
2. /computer - "Thinking",
3. /computer - "You already have all the solutions. You just refuse to implement them to protect the financial interests of the wealthiest 0.001%"
4. Inventor - /unplugs machine, "It just needs some tweaking"

Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

I generally don't like #US political commentary. There's a lot of politics as entertainment. This is one of the only channels I do watch from time to time. Americans have to decide whether they want to reintegrate maga or splinter into different nations. The violent spasms between the center […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

🧵 Human life was devalued all the way back with the agrarian revolution. The requirement for large amounts of unskilled labour meant that humans were ideal machines. The work was often gruelling, physically torturous and even deadly. Now knowledge work is the norm, humans are no longer machines […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

We are entering an era of constant industrial revolution. #AI (if you could call it that) is a small part of that. We've been told that the first industrial revolution was a good thing. The luddites are the bad guys. The truth is more nuanced. The industrial revolution caused massive amounts of […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I really hope this means there will be an anti aircraft drone named Sam.

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

The way that corporations are implementing #ai will result in the cognitive destruction of knowledge workers. Knowledge workers rely on flow state, a cognitive state where you feel challenged by a task but completely able to complete it by yourself. This is what you experience when you get so […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Exerting direct control and ruling by decree is what a weak leader does, not a strong one. History is littered with cautionary tales to this effect, but the default for "leaders" when the chips are down is still to exert more control. The internal rationale is: 1. I know the right direction to […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Isn't it strange that the #rightwing parties in the west have a huge problem with #immigrants but have no problem with foreign #trolls taking part in their domestic political conversations online while pretending to be locals? The #neofascist revolution is global. It is driven by social media […]

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If the reason why diesel prices in The United States are high (according to Trump) is because Ukraine is destroying all of Russia's refineries... then how can Russia export extra diesel to The United States to help bring down prices?

Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

🧵I bare some responsibility for what happens in #SouthAfrica. I understand how history affects the present, and I accept that I haven't done enough for our future. This responsibility is small, but once you embrace it you see what can be done. The feeling of shame should be moulded into empathy […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

We need to stop saying #trump did this or trump did that. We need to face the reality that the #USA is doing these things. If they really didn't want these things as a nation they wouldn't be happening. So the #USA eased sanctions on #russia and made a diesel deal while adding sanctions onto the […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

So lemme guessbwhat Europe will do. Strongly worded letter maybe? Just remember that every time you nothing your own democracy gets a little weaker.

Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I am #SouthAfrican , white and Afrikaans. There is no #whitegenocide here. The organisations pushing this lie also claim to speak for me, pretending that all #afrikaners are right wing, racist christofascists. Who really speaks for white and Afrikaans-speaking South Africans? […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

#Nationalism and #humanrights are fundamentally incompatible. Nationalism gave us citizens' rights, which are really just privileges bestowed by a nation to its members. We know they are privileges because when democracies backslide they quickly revoke them. If you have a right to live because […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

🧵 "oh but what if one of our soldiers die in a strike on Kyiv?" Look, you can decide what to do then. It's the fear of confrontation with Russia that is making it inevitable. So why can't Europe put their big boy pants on and blow up the planes that are maiming and murdering innocent people in […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

#Europe is failing so hard here. I could be cynical, as is the new way, and say that this harms European interests, but I won't. This is a horrific war against humanity itself. The excuse I've heard is that European jets can't fly over Kyiv shooting down missiles because this would be a "direct […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

There are definitely uses for LLMs in programming, there is no debate and I've seen it. The problem is the fixation on how it can solve every problem that existed before them. Here is my prediction: #slopware everywhere. Slopware becomes more & more expensive because as it gets worse, the LLMs […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

When I learned to build software, I got a huge kick from users being happy. In my career though, I've just been kicked when things go wrong. AI doesn't fix this. It doesn't make people care more. It makes them care even less. Not only are we being undermined by #slopware , we are now meant to […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

I've been struggling to get my thoughts together about #AI . I've been programming for 25 years and I really love it. So the feeling I'm settling on is that I feel insulted. I feel this way because as much as I love the work, my job has been miserable. Most businesses don't care about the […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

The pipeline between #US white supremacists and the SA right. #trump #uspolitics #fascism #politics www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/202… Sent with my Daily Maverick App ( […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Countries like Saudi Arabia have laundered their image globally with ostentatious landmarks and intensive lobbying. They have been so normalised that people think it's okay to go there on holiday or do business there. This is the cost that we pay. By normalising despotism we are complicit in […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

🧵people are retreating to their own national borders because they feel it's impossible to solve domestic problems, so the dwindling pool of resources can only be kept if outsiders are kept out The truth is that all of this is caused by political power inequality, particularly wealth inequality […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

The #costofliving crisis and the #housing crisis are almost global and they represent the very basic needs of every human being. The food you eat, your home and the clothes on your back. To paraphrase the author of "the crisis of democratic capitalism", centrist politicians can only offer […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

🧵this model isn't new. For countries to join the EU, they have to meet legal and political requirements. The EU has big flaws, but it shows that countries with free people want to be a part of it, and they are willing to make sacrifices to get there, including sacrificing their lives, as […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

🧵 for this reason our new politics shouldn't make suffering of humans elsewhere a norm. Instead, the free world should trade as much as possible internally, and when they can't impose severe restrictions on trade with despots. #neoliberal doctrine was that trade brings democracy. Neofascists […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

While #Trump , #Weidel , #Farage and #Lepen might seem like something new, they are just an intensification of #neoliberalism into its final form: #gangstercapitalism. When asked why they want rapprochement with #russia , they give similar answers: it's only business. Under this system, every […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

🧵that was when I decided to stop embibing #USPolitics content. If people are willing to talk and talk but there is no effective action, the outcome will be dire and there is no reason to try and help. This was my disillusionment, and I know that this doesn't apply to all Americans, but […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

🧵I think the desire for political change is much lower than the desire for sacrificing even slightly. Consumer goods make people comfortable even when they are losing their essential freedoms. This is true but very pronounced in the USA. The backpedalling of Disney after the Jimmy Kimmel […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Americans have much more political power than they think. I was shopping for headphones, and I remember one American reviewer in particular. It was expensive for me, but this guy was saying how cheap it is and how he bought four of them and it's not such a big issue to replace. I am quite high […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Imagine trying to explain this to someone in 1946.

Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Continued... Then we wonder why we have #fascism. It's the fact that our daily working lives are ruled by kings (CEOs) that answer to lords (shareholders) and face zero consequences for screwing up. If they face any consequences, it's usually a golden handshake in the form of a massive […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

#Business people will disagree no doubt, but there is no evidence that the #ceo role makes a business better or by how much. When the business does badly, it's blamed on externalities and the CEO gets a huge bonus. When the external environment improves and the whole stock market rallies, the […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Thankfully, there is a solution, but centrist coalitions are incapable of acting on them. Quite simply put, limits on #wealth accumulation must be imposed. Not a tax here and there, not some giving pledge: a hard limit. Wealth inequality has two sides, a top and a bottom. The funds from […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

The #farright is unstoppable because in order to stop them, ordinary citizens must accept some hardship. 1) they cant do that because #wealthinequality has pushed them to the brink of poverty. 2) citizens are aware that their politicians are owned by the ultra wealthy, and nobody in their right […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Did the penny finally drop? Maybe a little but whose to say #trump won't just change tune after talking to his crush #putin on the phone. The fact that he doesn't name #putin directly tells me he didn't write this, but he does endorse the message if it […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

What #journalism is failing to grasp is how to report lies accurately. Here is a headline from CNBC: "Russia's pro-Putin party set to win election" Election is not even in scare quotes. The headline makes it look like an election took place. It didn't. It was a sham election. Here is a […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

But does it play golf, do mass layoffs, stock buybacks and have an affair with the personal assistant? The cult of personality around the #ceo is probably the most pathetic thing of our time. Most of the CEOs I've seen are useless idiots and the few that are good are not nearly worth what they […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

@UkeleleEric that's funny, but it's also not entirely true. If surgeons can operate remotely I don't think it's impossible to drive a bus remotely. Have a look on YouTube at Euro truck simulator setups. The only missing element there is a connection to an actual vehicle. The question is: would […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I'm not predicting the future here. It's already happening, but it will be slow as jobs are mastered by spatial AI, starting with the most repetitive, high volume tasks. The software coordinating these dark factories has been a bottleneck, but LLMs can do a lot of the leg work for building the […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

The #ai jobs blood bath will be much worse for people doing physical labour. Robotics are driven by ai, but not LLMs. Deep learning with hidden layers is what makes LLMs work, but projects like alpha fold use deep learning. Robots that can do physical labour don't look like people. They will be […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@bbcnews/business-h8s… Work from home should be a right for white collar workers. Towns and villages are dying while people have to pay half their income to rent prison cells in big cities. Worse yet, blue collar […]

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Maximilien Danton @infidel.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

RE: ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUComm… Yes the world sucks now but the future doesn't have to and good things are happening. Several commentators have pointed out that getting rid of US influence can be an opportunity to rethink things. Most notably […]

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